Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh

Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh is Crawford Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. A celebrated authority on Sikhism and Sikh Studies, she has received numerous awards for her previous publications and scholarship. Recent books by Professor Singh include Poems from the Sikh Sacred Tradition (Murty Classical Library of India, Harvard University Press, 2023), Janamsakhi: Paintings of Guru Nanak in Early Sikh Art (Roli Books, 2023), and The First Sikh: The Life...See more

Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh is Crawford Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. A celebrated authority on Sikhism and Sikh Studies, she has received numerous awards for her previous publications and scholarship. Recent books by Professor Singh include Poems from the Sikh Sacred Tradition (Murty Classical Library of India, Harvard University Press, 2023), Janamsakhi: Paintings of Guru Nanak in Early Sikh Art (Roli Books, 2023), and The First Sikh: The Life and Legacy of Guru Nanak (Penguin Random House India, 2019). Her earlier and groundbreaking study The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent (also published by Cambridge University Press) appeared in the 'Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions' monograph series in 1993. See less